Phinney wins silver medal in the kilo

UCI Track Championships
A day after winning gold in the 4k pursuit, Taylor Phinney is second in the kilo time trial. VeloNews Article and VeloNews Photos from Yesterday

from @TaylorPhinney, Fri 27 Mar 15:08 via Tweetie
Ouch! New PB slash American record but had to settle for silver this evening... Amazing ride by Nimke for Gold! The kilo is hard..

Men's Kilometre TT
1 Stefan Nimke (Germany) 1.00.666 (59.341 km/h)
2 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America) 1.01.611
3 Mohd Rizal Tisin (Malaysia) 1.01.658
4 Michaël d'Almeida (France) 1.02.034
5 Scott Sunderland (Australia) 1.02.144
6 Teun Mulder (Netherlands) 1.02.209
7 David Daniell (Great Britain) 1.02.316
8 Kamil Kuczynski (Poland) 1.02.356
9 Quentin Lafargue (France) 1.02.669
10 Edward Dawkins (New Zealand) 1.02.68

Castilla y León wrap up
1. Levi Leipheimer (Astana)
2. Alberto Contador (Astana)
3. Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Slipstream)

Koppenberg Circuit Update: Sunday's Race in Superior, CO
UPDATE 3/27/09 10:46am
The sun is out. We should see some significant melting today and still plan on plowing & shoveling today. Worst case, we will make a call to cancel by 2pm tomorrow.

UPDATE 3/26/09 12:40pm
Yes we know its snowing. Here is the plan...
We have arranged for the hill to be plowed Friday afternoon after the snow stops. From there we will hand shovel the rest. With the sun and wind expected for Saturday, it should be dry enough for racing on Sunday.

A Nice Article in VeloNews

Proud mother: Connie Carpenter's report on day 2 at track worlds.
By Connie Carpenter
Posted Mar. 26, 2009 in VeloNews.com

Other news on the day:
Track World's Day 3: Taylor Phinney grabs gold pursuit
By BikeRadar & AFP in BikeRadar.com

2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Results for Taylor Phinney in Pruszkow, Poland

Tweet from Neal Henderson:
nealhenderson http://twitpic.com/2gxnk - World Champion!!!!

Men's Individual Pursuit

Final

1 Taylor Phinney (United States)                 4.17.631 (55.839 km/h)
2 Jack Bobridge (Australia)                      4.20.091

3 Dominique Cornu (Belgium)                      4.22.347 (54.889 km/h)
4 Volodymyr Diudiu (Ukraine)                     4.28.297

Brief Results from CyclingNews.com today: read more here
Yesterday's report from Session 1: read more here
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The Adventures of Neal and Taylor

I hope everyone is following these two on Twitter because they are having a great time in Poland

Neal's twitter site: http://twitter.com/nealhenderson
Taylor's twitter site: http://twitter.com/taylorphinney

I will post their results as soon as I hear anything on Thursday and Friday.

The Kid can Ride a Bike

just as Len Pettyjohn reported yesterday . . . the news is out - Phinney does it again.

Phinney breaks US kilometer time trial record

Phinney follows pursuit record with record kilo time

16 hours ago

PARIS (AFP) — Teenaged track cycling tyro Taylor Phinney added lustre to his new American record in the individual pursuit by winning the four-lap kilometre event at the World Cup event in Copenhagen Saturday.

Phinney, the son of former road professional Davis Phinney and former women's world pursuit champion Connie Carpenter, is going from strength to strength one month ahead of the world championships in Poland.

On Friday, Phinney set a new national record of 4min 15.223sec in qualifying for the 4km pursuit.

A day later the 18-year-old set another national record by winning the kilometre ahead of respected Frenchman Michael d'Almeida in a time of 1:01.641.

Phinney clocked a winning time of 1:01.641 to win the gold medal and eclipse the old US national record of 1:01.825 set by Erin Hartwell in Colorado Springs in 1995.

D'Almeida, a silver medal winner in the non-Olympic event at last year's world championships in Manchester, finished second in 1:02.071.

Hopefully Neal Henderson can give us a more detailed report of Taylor's success when all the numbers are in - now there is a watts graph we'd all like to see.
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Local Boy Does Good

For anyone interested in some great local news . . .

Phinney shatters US pursuit record (scroll down)

. . . US National Team member Taylor Phinney shattered the American national record in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit on Friday at the UCI Track World Cup in Denmark. Phinney, clocked a time of 4:15.223 in the qualifying round, surpassing the previous mark of 4:19.800 set by Mariano Friedick in 1996. (from cyclingnews.com 02/14/09)